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ed, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.

Applicable; also, compliant. [Obs.] Howell.

Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.

Not pliable; inflexible; inyielding.

Not compliable; not conformable.

Capable of being multiplied. -- Mul"ti*pli`a*ble*ness, n.

Inapplicable. Milton.

Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble. [Obs.] So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be, And buxom to his bands, is joy to see. Spenser. I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it. Foxe.

To make as pliable as kid leather. [Obs.] Br. Montagu.

A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, howewer produced.

Like a cushion; soft; pliable. A flat and cushiony noce. Dickens.

Easily molded; pliable.

Tractableness; pliableness. South.

of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. Shak.

Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable. Wordsworth.

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredie…

Easily bent; pliable. Lithy tree (Bot.), a European shrub (Viburnum Lantana); -- so named from its tough and flexible stem.

Thin and rather soft or pliable, as the leaves of the rose, peach tree, and aspen poplar.

Capable of being multiplied; multipliable.

an oil obtained by boiling the feet of neat cattle. It is used to render leather soft and pliable.